AMY GARTRELL, and best bud – PATTERSON BECKWITH, arrive at the opening of Amy’s new show, ‘Whatever and Ever’ at DANIEL REICH. Sat, May 22, 2010. the show runs thru June 26, 2010
Amy’s show just got a sweet review in the NEW YORK TIMES !!
see: AMY GATRELL/KAREN ROSENBERG/THE NEW YORK TIMES/JUNE 18, 2010 !!
NOTE: THE SHOW JUST GOT EXTENDED – THRU JULY 17 !!
AMY greets long time pal – SPENCER SWEENEY, at the opening.
SPENCER SWEENEY .. . said to have done very well at BASEL – with big-time names like PETER BRANT and VAL KILMER – thrown into the mix !!
one of Amy’s flower photo collages, 2009. 25.5 x 19 in. ($5,000).
Amy told me – she puts the actual objects onto the scanner bed – to get the effects she is looking for – a kind of hyper realism – that actually goes very romantic.
AMY GARTRELL, ‘Couple’, 2010. ink on paper.
8.25 x 8.75 in. ($2,000).
detail, AMY GARTRELL, ‘Couple’.
one of the more unusual pieces is a kind of modernist dollhouse – that riffs off the modernist designs Amy has painted directly onto the gallery walls. it comes on a very stylized pedestal !!
AMY GARTRELL, ‘Compartmentalization is Cool’, 2010. Glazed ceramics, model chair, MDF, acrylic.
54 x 18 x 18 in. ($8,000).
on the right, gallerist DANIEL REICH basking in the cool summer eve of last month’s so reasonable weather !!
with him, artist/photog GRANT WORTH.
CYRUS has brought along his pet plant !! it’s a violet – and when he is not out and about – he hangs it from a hook in his Brooklyn garden !!
POSTED BY NANCY SMITH – JUNE 22, 2010 8:55 AM
PHOTOS: COPYRIGHT NANCY SMITH
~AMY GARTRELL/LAST WEEK . . |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | June 22nd, 2010, 8:34am
well, there’s fame – and then, there’s F-A-M-E !!
NICK ANDERSON/6-17-10/HOUSTON CHRONICLE CARTOON – ON NEW YORK POST’S – PAGE SIX – JUNE 18, 2010
SHEPARD FAIREY, ‘JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT’, the poster image for Shepard Fairey’s recently closed show at DEITCH PROJECTS, titled ‘MAYDAY’.
HOPE to S.O.S. – nice symmetry or what ?
POSTED BY NANCY SMITH – JUNE 22, 2010 8:15 AM
PHOTOS: COPYRIGHT NANCY SMITH
~SHEPARD FAIREY: FULL CIRCLE !! |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | June 22nd, 2010, 8:15am
HALF FAME !! HAVE FAME !! AIN’T FAME – A BITCH ??!!
more pix . . . from the HALF GALLERY – ‘A WAYS A WAY’ opening . . . curated by MEREDITH DARROW and DEVENDRA BANHART. LOWER EAST SIDE, NYC. JUNE 8, 2010.
a small painting by KEEGAN McHARGUE. ‘Untitled’, 2007.
acrylic on canvas, 36 x 26 in. ($6,000.)
yes. that’s Half Gallery co-owner, and BRAVO game show ‘judge’ – BILL POWERS on the left.
the show featured an arrangement of new, and curious !! DEVENDRA BANHART works on paper . . . they were small, in the range of 12 x 9 in. , and very intense. eyeballs – that could almost be taken for, well – bullet holes. very different from the works of his, we have seen in the past, which were mostly spidery line and dot and dash drawings. and usually incorporating words – and done only in black ink. these were in color and had full color spectrum-inducing backgrounds. gouache and pencil on paper. the price range ? approx $1,800. not bad, at all.
my advice, scoop one up – before they blink !!
next to Devendra’s work – was another series of attention-grabbing – graphic pencil and gouache drawings by ADAM TULLIE. gorgeous, and mysterious !!, on their own terms – they made me immediately consider just how bizarre and unpredictable a turn – Devendra had taken. the works, again seemed as priced as close to the bone as one could get – $1,200 – and still be (almost) fair to the artist. it’s definitely a buyer’s market. I mean these are unique and very complicated pieces – and very complex ones at that – not prints. a decade ago, these would be print (multiple edition) prices !!
the artist behind those very intense drawings, was at the opening – ADAM TULLIE. He had just come in from Los Angeles, where, funny great fact – he is a roommate of Devendra’s !! guess that makes him, most enviably – just one degree of separation from the flame of fame – in what most certainly must be the very epicenter of cool and creativity in good ole San Francisco.
outside, artnet scribe CHARLIE FINCH was basking in the fame of local pundit glory !!
with him is KATE CERIGO, whom he has known ever since she was a tiny tot – running around many a downtown opening in the 80’s – including those of BASQUIAT and HARING – a true downtown, Rivington and the Bowery, Lower East Side storefront artist-bred kid !!
p.s. people keep asking Kate about her necklace !!
it’s a gold-plated punched hole template – a riff off those plastic canvas and yarn projects of camp days past – that comes in a kind of new age kit with a needle and some yarn, and you embroider your own design !! (yeah, I did Kate’s – well we collaborated – she put in some stitches too, how fun !!)
check it out – its put out by: return to me !!
then Charlie took me and Kate over to his favorite nite-time after-opening hang out – the BABY GRAND – !! – 161 Lafayette corner of Grand St. (duh !!) which just happens to be one tiny sweet slice of a Karaoke !! bar !! and, who knew – a star is born !!
Elvis in the house !! CHARLIE FINCH – warbles righteous !!
I guess – a finch is a finch is a finch !!
POSTED BY NANCY SMITH – SAT JUNE, 19, 2010 9:27 AM
ALL PHOTOS: COPYRIGHT NANCY SMITH
~HALF FAME !! |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | June 19th, 2010, 10:26am
BILL POWERS and MEREDITH DARROW, at the HALF GALLERY, NYC. JUNE 8, 2010
PHOTO BY NANCY SMITH
BILL POWERS, with independent curator MEREDITH DARROW, at the opening of ‘A WAYS A WAY’ a small but way totally intense show, curated by MEREDITH DARROW and DEVENDRA BANHART !!
the show opened last night, June 8, 2010 at the HALF GALLERY, of which Bill is a co-owner, 208 FORSYTH ST. on the Lower East Side – just south of Houston.
the show featured strong and, I suppose you could say – elegant – but very visual – work by 8 artists – more pix from the opening coming up – soon !!
in the meantime, you can check out: HALF GALLERY !!
(and, no Devendra wasn’t there – he is on tour !!)
BILL POWERS looks to be one cool dude – and let’s hope so for his sake – as the NYC art world – or so they say !! looks to take its place of pride besides other talent search shows, cooks ? models ? housewives ? Jersey boys ? on the BRAVO Channel – with its debut broadcast tonight – WED JUNE 9, at 10PM/9PMCentral !!
first off I have to tell ya – and Kate will attest – I am a huge huge fan of the HOUSEWIVES – all of them !! meaning ORANGE COUNTY, NEW YORK CITY and NEW JERSEY !! and yes, I too marvel – at what comes out of KELLY BENSIMON’S mouth !! but hey, its obviously – give me beauty over content – rules – or I’d be on it – instead of my bit turn in WE LIVE IN PUBLIC !! !! and I love love the JERSEY SHORE !! but I do hate all those top talent model / fashion designer / cook shows.
from the advance clips – slipped in while TERESA GIUDICE buys her darling little GIA, who just turned 9 – a tot-sized ATV – and treats her and her pint-sized pals to an all-pink spa birthday party !! (hey and I like Gia – she’s cute, and funny. and she’s pretty real, till her mom gives her the shuush signal !! – for a pint-sized reality star. and what about that NEW JERSEY accent – you go girl – keep it !!) – while TERESA and husband JOE are being outed in the press for their $11 MILLION BANKRUPTCY FILING !! – tell me about it, Joe.
. . . “WORK OF ART” – executive produced by SARAH JESSICA PARKER – looking to being called a loser twice-over this season – promises to be, not just lame, but seriously wannabe – esp in the ‘art’ talent department. and JERRY SALTZ – never the rolling stone last word on the art scene – he likes to think he is – esp among anyone I know – oh my god – a turn on national T.V. might just close him down, and hopefully not the whole NYC art scene with him. memo to Jerry – a star turn on Bravo T.V. – does not a star is born ? – make !!
ok ok – I am gonna watch it – and if I’ve been unjustifiably unkind – I’ll own up !! but hands down I bet – Bill Powers is gonna be the only – cool kid on the block.
from the left: JEANNE GREENBERG (HEIRESS/GALLERIST), JERRY SALTZ (art critic/NEW YORK MAG), the generic hostess, BILL POWERS (HALF GALLERY CO-OWNER), and SIMON de PURY (founder of the auction house that bears his name).
see: BRAVO T.V. !!
POSTED BY NANCY SMITH – WED JUNE 9, 2010 4:37 PM
UP-DATE: WED JUNE 9, 2010 10:06 PM
look like they’ve been bumped 1 hr. up, or is that back ?
. . . according to most the current schedule on BRAVOTV – the debut hour of ‘WORK OF ART: THE NEXT GREAT ARTIST’ is on at 11 PM.
UP-DATE: WED JUNE 9, 2010 12:02 AM
well. it wasn’t that bad, or as bad as I thought, it would be. Jerry actually handles himself pretty well, though he usually isn’t one for “skills” – and this was one very skill-based test. a portrait. abstraction and conceptualism did not rule. He had the best line – “I think you are being a little defensive.” !! BILL POWERS had the greatest suit on. everyone seemed a little formal – the first time through the gate. put it this way – no one. not a one, cracked a joke or a smile. I guess its the Trump factor. Sarah Jessica Parker – the most pro – on-a-stage – came across the most self-conscious, funny right. ok and sorry for the generic host bit, CHINA CHOW. though truthfully she didn’t have much to say. (and I kept thinking about those after-parties, HARING and BASQUIAT, SCHNABEL and SALLE – at MR CHOW’S back in the early 80s !! flashbacks that cast a harsh light on these Newest Nextest Greatest proceedings. let’s not even go there. SIMON de PURY was helped by his accent – in his TOM GUNN role. He did in fact make some pretty down-to-earth assessments. Him and that great striped, multi-hued pin-striped wallpaper. JEANNE GREENBERG came down right on the side of trendy.
In what looks like they are taking a cue from AMERICAN IDOL – the talent seems to be going to judged by ability to genre. would I watch it again ? – maybe just to see how genre splitting and obvious – the next task will be. the winner was too much the cute kid for me. I like the the big round guy in the blue shirt the best. no disrespect – am I allowed to say that. I forget his name – he did the portrait of the clown guy – I liked how he photo-shopped his realist portrait – with beat-up-ness, bruises and spelled out ‘kitten’ on his subject’s fingers, but mostly, truthfully, I just liked his manner and what he said – he was a nice ‘big easy’ for a change. the girls were too diva and mostly reminded me of the fashion runway shows with Heidi.
the best part of the night ? the DREW BARRYMORE ‘covergirl’ commercial on the TOP CHEF finale !! caught while waiting for ‘NEXT GREAT ARTIST’ to spool. BRAVO is actually a great place to catch the hottest trends. their ads are looking more and more web-based everyday.
actually the key to the show’s ultimate irrelevancy has to be that unfortunate and played-out – turquoise – of the show’s logo – it shoulda been – a deep bright red !!
and forget Sarah Jessica Parker or even that hint of the up-coming mystery guest, ANDRE
SERRANO. I’d like to see Banksy come on and demolish the proceedings. maybe with RUSSELL BRAND in tow !! nope. the show just ain’t top talent, I’ll stick with the housewives, thank you. and the movies.
~BILL POWERS !! BRAVO !! |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | June 9th, 2010, 4:34pm
DARLA ROSE – RENEGADE CRAFT FAIR – BROOKLYN, NY – JUNE 5, 2010
PHOTOS: NANCY SMITH
DARLA ROSE is a friend of Kate’s – they both graduated a few summers ago from the Graphic Design/BFA Program at S.V.A. – turns out DARLA is also a musician, singer, and songwriter !!
so – here’s a sweet respite – from a gloomy rainy day – in NYC !!
watch: DARLA ROSE/NUMBER 1/YouTube !!
beautiful, or what !!
here’s Darla’s MySpace page – for more !! !!
like many young New Yorkers, Darla has an interesting background – her dad is GLEN BURTNIK – who played with STYX – in the early days and who has gone on to do some really interesting things.
see: GLEN BURTNIK/WIKIPEDIA !!
check out this a-m-a-z-i-n-g clip !!
it’s Darla and her dad, with her siblings, Sally and Beau – singing at Glen Burtnik’s 2007 Xmas Xtravaganza – Count Basie Theater, Red bank, N.J. !!
watch: GLEN BURTNIK & THE BURTNIX !! at Count Basie Theater !!
POSTED BY NANCY SMITH – WED JUNE 9, 2010 3:47 PM
~DARLA ROSE !! |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | June 9th, 2010, 3:47pm
the 6th annual RENEGADE ART FAIR – in WILLIAMSBURG – wasn’t quite that RENEGADE – but there were enough fun spots & high points to make the trip worthwhile. esp if you had knocked back a couple of BLOODY MARYS at any one of BROOKLYN’S great little diners !! – before getting there.
hi, Kate !!
gold ‘grill’ ring – VERAMEAT .
clay and ‘gold’ paper bowls – UP IN THE AIR SOMEWHERE.
crystal and braid necklaces – CURSIVE DESIGN.
very fun: laptop decals for Macs – SUZIE AUTOMATIC.ETSY.COM / $5-$25.
apple of my eye – $7. SUZIE AUTOMATIC.
SUZIE AUTOMATIC.
SUZIE AUTOMATIC.
SUZIE AUTOMATIC.
re-usable sandwich wrapper, $9 – chez-sucre-chez.
gorgeous yarn – BROWNSTONE FARMS BROOKLYN.
BROWNSTONE FARMS also had one of the nicest banners.
beautiful hand knit hats at – yes jess.
they were pretty fairly priced all things considered, this one was $38.
some ‘evil’ bunnies – $20 – McBitterson’s.
very cool – UZINYC.
more cool fashion at – POSTLAPSARIA.
also at POSTLAPSARIA – $75.
skulls – “SAKE WILL HELP” !! – says one – MQUAN.
small pillows – snowdrop.etsy.com
snowdrop.etsy.com
snowdrop.etsy.com
an array of letterpress designs – SESAME LETTERPRESS & DESIGN.
anything animal – that isn’t a pelican – coated in vile black oil goo – makes me happy.
SESAME LETTERPRESS & DESIGN.
letterpress is so fun to handle. SESAME LETTERPRESS & DESIGN.
the people behind – SESAME LETTERPRESS & DESIGN . .
KATE & NORA – say good-bye from the RENEGADE CRAFT FAIR.
McCARREN PARK, BROOKLYN. JUNE 5 & 6, 2010
ALL PHOTOS COPYRIGHT: NANCY SMITH
POSTED BY NANCY SMITH – TUES JUNE 8, 2010 1:22 PM
~at the FAIR !! |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | June 8th, 2010, 1:22pm
CHARLIE FINCH, what the hell were you thinking . . .”Post-boom, the contemporary art season has reverted to its traditional school-year trajectory of September to June … “summing up the season”/artnet
it’s turning out to be the biggest scariest summer on record – what with the big oil spill – and it’s moving Atlantic coast ways, guys – and the wipe-out here at home – tech-wise on artlovers !! at least I’m not gushing oil into the global oceans – but it’s funny – it’s kind of the inverse tragedy – due to tech deepwaters – aka server upgrade – I’m losing the ability to maintain my archives – at least to open public access on the web !! can we call that the inverse of pollution ? I think so. the very REV LUKE MURPHY – has just managed to keep a small stream of internet juice open to my photos & text !! but at least I have a PLAN B !! – I just don’t have the corporate dough – to do it all at once. . . those guys – supposedly the biggest brains in the world among them ?? – can’t fix their toxic black water disaster – for love or money. . . and the art world sure ain’t sleeping through it – its just picking up the beat – harder, faster and hotter – than the sleepy town – you’d have thunk NYC – to be – without me !! from one of the (now !!) biggest Manhattan galleries – GAVIN BROWN’S ENTERPRISE – to the lowliest of the newest Brooklyn artist-run gallery collectives – LOUIS V. E.S.P. – scary innovation scenarios – are – the cutting edge !! welcome to the scary angry, but way COOL !! new world. the SHEPARD FAIREY – MAYDAY call – is done and over – and there is no fix in site – reality has set in – and it’s one big bad MOEBIUS global moment – welcome to the future. summer 2010. and the art scene in NYC – sleepy and over – ? – it sure as hell ain’t !!
the medium is the message, and the message is: it’s a brave new world – get with it !! ya gotta be super smart. scrambled but scary-good. with messed-up black waters in the cultural consciousness – everybody’s gotta aim green !! the artists gotta be quick on their feet if they want to be relevant – and the gallerists – have to be so so right on. everything is crucial. everything is performance art. all gallery space is performance and performance art is dead. trivial tripping, hello P.S. 1 – is so – not there. been there, done that – over.
the summer heat starts at GBE !!
if you don’t believe me – a picture is worth a thousand words !!
SPOILER ALERT !!
‘GO VEGAN!’ – & – ‘MARTIN CREED’ (Part I and 2 !!)
run thru JUNE 19, 2010
GAVIN BROWN’S ENTERPRISE
‘GO VEGAN!’ – JONATHAN HOROWITZ/GBE/LA FREIDA MEATS
PHOTO: NANCY SMITH
MARTIN CREED/GBE/new annex
PHOTO: NANCY SMITH
then over in BROOKLYN !!
the tiny brave new world artist collective – LOUIS V. E.S.P. brings you:
MISFORTUNE COMES !! – ’36 DRAMATIC SITUATIONS’ – a big group show !!
organized by SCOTT KIERNAN !!
the big opening reception nite party was Memorial Day weekend – but you can still catch the fun – by appointment only – thru JUNE 11, 2010 !!
LOUIS V. E. S. P.
DERIC CARNER/IMAGE COURTESY LOUIS V. E.S.P.
PETER COFFIN/IMAGE COURTESY LOUIS V. E.S.P.
INVITE IMAGE/LOUIS V. E.S.P.
. . . as they say it righteous, on their press release:
~Supplication~Deliverance~Crime pursued by vengeance~Vengeance taken for kin upon kin~Pursuit~Disaster~Falling prey to cruelty/misfortune~Revolt~Daring enterprise~Abduction-The enigma~Obtaining~Enmity of kin~Rivalry of kin~Murderous adultery~Madness~Fatal imprudence~(BP take note !!)~Involuntary crimes of love~Slaying of kin unrecognized~Self-sacrifice for an ideal~Self-sacrifice for kin~All sacrificed for passion~Necessity of sacrificing loved ones~Rivalry of superior vs. inferior~Adultery~Crimes of love~Discovery of the dishonour of a loved one~Obstacles to love~An enemy loved~Ambition~Conflict with a god~Mistaken jealousy~Erroneous judgement~remorse~Recovery of a lost one~Loss of loved ones~ !!
“now to this declared fact that there are no more than thirty-six dramatic situations, is attached a singular corollary, the discovery that there are in life but thirty-six emotions. A maximum of thirty-six emotions, and therein we have all r the savor of existence…” – GEORGES POITI, “The Thirty-Six Dramatic Solutions”, 1916.
and – OPENING TO-NITE – !!
FRI JUNE 4, 2010 !! 7-10 PM !! – – – – – – in BROOKLYN !! – – – – – – –
in WILLIAMSBURG. . .
we have BRIAN CHIPPENDALE – ‘FRUITING BODIES’ – !! (no less !!) – at CINDERS !!
the show runs thru JULY 3, 2010
CINDERS
from the press release:
“What lies behind the Black Hole, does Disney truly know ? When the chips are finished and the human brain is no less the floppy disk of yesterday, who’s to say what it will take to survive. All I can do is copy down the instructions I am given, sharpen them into a knife and stab the asshole barking orders.” – BRIAN CHIPPENDALE
ARTWORK BY BRIAN CHIPPENDALE/IMAGE COURTESY CINDERS
INVITE IMAGE/BRIAN CHIPPENDALE/’FRUITING BODIES’/COURTESY CINDERS
and in BUSHWICK. . .
EASTERN DISTRICT PRESENTS: ‘INSTALLATION SIX VIDEO – SCION ART TOUR’ !!
FEATURING: DUST LA ROCK / ERIC NAKAMURA & SALELEE OH / FRENCH & ALAN GLASS AS FUNERAL FOG / ILL-STUDIO / JOSH GRAHAM / MARK MOTHERSBAUGH / MONIHAN MONIHAN / PMKFA / SAGE
also opening to-nite / 7-10 PM
the show runs thru JUNE 27, 2010
EASTERN DISTRICT
from the press release:
“Now in its 6th year, this revolutionary art tour heads for its final stop at EASTERN DISTRICT in BROOKLYN, NY.
The tour focuses on the video medium, which emerged in the 1960s and has since expanded galleries into more experimental, kinetic, and interactive spaces. ‘Installation 6: Video’ challenged 10 artists to create non-narrative video installations that will eventually transform five unique exhibitions across the country.”
and if that isn’t enough – to qualify as one of the hottest summer season beginnings – e-v-a-h !!
watch out world !! it’s the 6th ANNUAL RENEGADE CRAFT FAIR – over in McCARREN PARK !!
B-R-O-O-K-L-Y-N !!
SAT + SUN / JUNE 5 + 6 / 11am-7pm
with over 300 artists !! – craft workshops !! – & – LIVE MUSIC !!
and it’s all free / to attend !!
RENEGADE CRAFT FAIR !!
talk about – SUMMER IN THE CITY !!
end of ART SEASON, NOT !!
POSTED BY NANCY SMITH / FRI JUNE 4, 2010 11:55 AM
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~What the hell – it’s one hot scary summer !! |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | June 4th, 2010, 10:39am
FILE THIS UNDER: “the last thing I needed” !! – times two !!
just in case you are totally out of the loop – while artlovers was undergoing a security check – thank you REV LUKE MURPHY !! – and is still disabled – JEFFREY DEITCH got a rather ‘un-noble’ send-off from NYC.
JEFFREY DEITCH at the recent SHEPARD FAIREY opening, ‘MAY DAY’ DEITCH PROJECTS, SOHO, NYC.
MAY 1, 2010 – PHOTO BY NANCY SMITH
that little dark spot above his left lip – which is actually blood-red in the digital archive but ‘auto-corrected’ by wordpress for some reason – and which I can’t override !! is actually a small fresh scar. what happened ?
rumors flew at the opening that Jeffrey had just socked someone or someone had just thrown a punch at him.
unable to to get any solid confirmation, and being that the scar was not visible in the published pix – I let it go.
but here’s what really happened: caught first-hand on someone’s camera. apart from that absolutely gorgeous exclamation – “the last thing I needed” !! – was the fact that not one single drop of blood landed on that immaculate baby pink suit !!
JEFFREY DEITCH confronts his ‘accidental’ attacker on YouTube !!
(gotta love not only the size of the hulking bad mannered brute (?) but those secret masonic symbols on his back – give me reality – over fiction, any day !!)
the other blow to Jeffrey’s departing ego – and it’s surprising – considering that he has left quite a legacy behind in his wake – a fact no one can deny – is the send-off kiss-off – rather unfortunate, and sour review ROBERTA SMITH penned on the SHEPARD FAIREY show – Jeffrey’s final show – here. and so MR. COOL – or as we like to call him – JEFFREY D. – sets off for L.A. and hopefully, not into the sunset. Good-bye and Good Luck. we will miss ya. engaging personality aside – you brought a lot of great shows to the scene. thanks.
ROBERTA SMITH, ‘SHEPARD FAIREY: MAY DAY’ . Published MAY 21, 2010. THE NEW YORK TIMES.
PHOTO BY ADAM REICH/NEW YORK TIMES
my god, Roberta – haven’t you ever heard of: the Medium is the Message ??!!
and, don’t ask me – I don’t know why – some New City critics can’t get over the the demise of Performance Art (proper) by Poster Art – which is surely a more popular – as in ‘mass communication’ and way less academic form of performance art – if you think about – for even a few seconds ??!!
and while we are at – yes !! go see: BANKSY – ‘EXIT THROUGH THE GIFT SHOP’ !! – if you haven’t already.
most definite drop that Nor-Eastern NYC art critic fueled – snobbishness – it is such a miss-out stand – and get yourself – to the big street par-tay !! it ain’t happening for naught !!
I would even venture to say BANKSY is his generation’s JULIAN SCHNABEL – and ‘EXIT THROUGH THE GIFT SHOP’ – is his – ‘BASQUIAT’ !!
I’m the last who wanted to admit it – being so NYC-centric – and someone who thought without having all the facts – I might add – that BANKSY was just one big sell-out and commercial hype. WRONG. the guy’s brilliant. period. JEFFREY shoulda screened it – as his parting shot . . .
KATE and I caught it on our recent excursion to the homeland – up north – MONTREAL !!
we both loved it. many times over.
that scribble down the rightt hand side – ‘EN PRISON KRAFT FOODS’ – ha ha – that’s some ‘local’ as in Quebecois – graff color – or I guess that would be: couleur !!
as to who made, as in hand-knit – Kate’s great sweater – that would be – moi – of course.
PHOTOS: NANCY SMITH. MONTREAL, QUEBEC. CANADA. MAY 13, 2010.
you can watch the BANKSY/PARANOID PICTURES !! ‘EXIT THROUGH THE GIFT SHOP’ – trailer here !!
and for all you worldwide losers – who haven’t seen it yet – here’s the international screening list !!
be there – or be: square.
POSTED BY NANCY SMITH – TUES JUNE 1, 2010 – 11:56 AM
~JEFFREY DEITCH SEND-OFF/not so hot . . . on the other hand, BANKSY’S ‘EXIT’ rocks !! |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | June 1st, 2010, 10:02am
DENNIS HOPPER – REBEL ICON & ARTIST – DIED YESTERDAY, SAT MAY 29, 2010. He was 74.
DENNIS HOPPER at the opening of his retrospective show – ‘SIGNS OF THE TIMES’ – at TONY SHAFRAZI GALLERY in NYC – last Fall 2009.
PHOTO: NANCY SMITH, NYC. SEPT 12, 2009
see more pix from the opening: ART LOVERS PHOTOS/2009-09-22 !!
including this photo:
TONY SHAFRAZI and SEAN PENN at the DENNIS HOPPER OPENING – NYC, SEPT 12, 2009.
ALL PHOTOS – COPYRIGHT – NANCY SMITH
POSTED BY NANCY SMITH – SUN MAY 30, 2010 – 10:42 AM
~DENNIS HOPPER 1936-2010 |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | May 30th, 2010, 9:17am
well in case you haven’t noticed artlovers is pretty broke-en !!
a victim to our own success – our web server took us on a hi-speed hi-tech up-grade and the site, pretty much jerry-rigged from the get-go – didn’t make the leap. all the PHP and even the WORDPRESS sections – popped.
so, gotta close down for technical maintenance !! check back in about 3 wks+ – and keep your fingers crossed !!
at any rate – even though the lights just went down on a lot of the cutting edge NEW YORK CITY ART SCENE – esp as sampled in our archives !! – at least – it isn’t a toxic black goopy oil spill invading the ocean !! just one big intellectual void !! ouch !! how about – with heart and soul & 100% street cred !!
if you find yourself really missing all the news, not to mention – the pix !! and the right-to-the-bone – artwork & artworld break-down analysis – that’s not gonna surface – pretty much anywhere else – – and want to do something concrete – about it – use the contact on the home page – & drop me a line – !! we’re positioning to get bigger – along with the new tech up-grade.
later.
POSTED BY NANCY SMITH – WED MAY 5, 2010 – 8:16 PM
~closing down for repairs !! |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | May 5th, 2010, 6:48pm
